Wind Program

On December 29, DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory released a third round of Requests for Proposals under DOE’s Distributed Wind Competitiveness Improvement Project (CIP) that aims to help U.S. manufacturers of small and mid-sized wind turbines.

This third annual report provides a comprehensive assessment of the U.S. offshore wind market. The report provides stakeholders with a reliable and consistent data source addressing entry barriers and U.S. competitiveness in the offshore wind market.

NOWEGIS investigated the key economic and technological factors that influence the integration of offshore wind energy onto the national grid. The findings suggest that the U.S. has sufficient offshore wind energy resources to enable installation of at least 54 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity.

News

The Energy Department and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) today recognized the Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association (Tri-State) and San Isabel Electric Association (San Isabel) of Colorado as the 2014 WINDExchange Wind Cooperatives of the Year.